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Student Speech
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Media Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Allows Former High School Student’s Case Against School Over Two-Word Tweet To Proceed
A federal district court is allowing some of a former high school student's claims against a school district and a police chief to move forward after the school district and…
Education Law Prof Blog
Federal District Court Overturns School Policy Allowing Distribution Of Only Student-Written Literature
The Western District Court of Washington overturned a student's suspension on Friday for preaching and distributing Christian literature, the Pacific Justice Institute reports. Cribbing from the Institute's press release: Plaintiff Michael…
The Right Coast
What speech is going to justify expulsion next, if the OU / SAE expulsion is accepted as proper? – The Washington Post
University of Oklahoma President David Boren has expelled two students for leading a racist chant. These students speech was indeed quite repugnant, but for reasons I discuss here, it s…
Education Law Prof Blog
Fifth Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc In Off-Campus Student Speech Case
The Fifth Circuit has granted rehearing en banc to review a panel's decision that a school's disciplining a student for off campus rights violated his First Amendment rights. In Bell v. Itawamba…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Fifth Circuit to Rehear Off-School Speech Case
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Fifth Circuit last week granted a school district's petition for rehearing en banc in a case involving off-campus student speech. The grant means…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Tinkering with Alito’s Code to Morse’s Limits: Why Alito’s Concurrence is Crucial to Preserving Tinker and Students’ Right to Free Speech”
The title of this post comes from this paper arguing that student free speech rights under the First Amendment have been receiving less protection than the standards articulated in Tinker…
Education Law Prof Blog
Student Internet Speech Draws Media Interest after Lengthy Suspension
The now well-publicized federal lawsuit filed this week by a former high school student after he was suspended for a two-word post highlights the continuing difficulties that school officials have regulating…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sunday Dress: Kort on Revitalizing Tinker
In her article "An Imminent Substantial Disruption: Towards a Uniform Standard for Balancing the Rights of Students to Speak and the Rights of Administrators to Discipline" (forthcoming in Dartmouth Law…
School Law
Student Suspended for Facebook Post
A Pennsylvania high school student is suing the Central York school district in Pennsylvania for his suspension for a Facebook post he wrote on his personal computer. The student, identified…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Student Files Suit After Tweet Lands Her In Hot Water
A New Jersey student has filed a federal court lawsuit, H.W. v. Sterling High School District, alleging that she has been subject to disability discrimination and that her First Amendment rights…